Disabled people sometimes need to see more doctors than non-disabled people because a lot of the time we have very complex medical issues that require more specialized training than your primary care doctor can give you. When you have Spina Bifida, sometimes you have to see multiple doctors because you can have multiple muscle groups … Continue reading Specialists That I See As A Disabled Person
Exercise is just as important for disabled people as it is for non-disabled people, but it is more difficult for disabled people to start exercising than it is for non-disabled people because of our limitations. Disabled people are often told by doctors that we should exercise more, and I think you should make exercise part … Continue reading How Can You Make Fitness More Accessible For Disabled People?
Chronic pain changes your life and impacts everything you do because people with pain have to think before doing the simplest task in order to prevent the pain from getting worse. Some people with Spina Bifida have chronic pain, but in my experience, most people who I have met with my disability do not live … Continue reading Five Things I Took For Granted Before Pain
Disabled people are often approached by non-disabled people and told that they wish they didn't have work and that we are basically on vacation all of the time. It is always funny to me when non-disabled people compare disability to being on vacation because clearly you have never been on vacation and been disabled because … Continue reading Is Disability Like Being On Vacation?
In the New Year, a lot of people make new goals for themselves, which I think is important because goals help us grow, and without challenges, there is no change. As a disabled blogger, I think it is super important for both new and veteran bloggers to have goals for themselves because it can help … Continue reading Blogging Goals To Make In The New Year
When you start to experience pain, a lot of people will Google their symptoms before going to the doctor because the Internet makes it easy to look stuff up and diagnose yourself. If you have a diagnosis and want to learn more about it, I think the Internet is great for that because doctors don't … Continue reading Why I Don’t Google My Disability Or Any Of It’s Symptoms
Hip replacement surgery can help lessen hip pain and improve your quality of but until you significantly improve your hip strength life gets harder before it gets easier. When I had hip replacement surgery I lost a significant amount of mobility that I once had and my life changed in ways that I never thought … Continue reading Lessons I Have Learned From My Mobility Loss
Happy New Year! At the beginning of the year, a lot of people set new goals and love that people want to challenge themselves, but unfortunately, most people will fail by next week because they set goals that are completely ridiculous and impossible to achieve. I love that people are setting goals for themselves because … Continue reading Realistic New Years Resolutions That Are Actually Achievable
When you are diagnosed with a chronic illness such as endometriosis it can be a tough diagnosis to accept because a lot of the time people don't understand the complexities of the disease and think it's just a bad period. Endometriosis is a chronic full-body disease that affects many women which occurs when the tissue … Continue reading Invisible Challenges Of Endometriosis That You Don’t See
If you are disabled, it is likely that you have had a conversation with a non-disabled person about cures because a lot of the time non-disabled people struggle to see how anyone could be happy with disability and think we need one. As a disabled person, I have been very vocal about my opinion on … Continue reading Am I Against Cures?
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